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Dillion vs Zillion - What's the difference?

dillion | zillion |

Zillion is a synonym of dillion.



In hyperbole lang=en terms the difference between dillion and zillion

is that dillion is an unspecified large number (of) while zillion is an unspecified large number (of).

dillion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
  • * 1982 , Roald Dahl, The BFG
    • 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours.
  • * 2012 , Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo
    • He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
  • * 2014 , Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
    • You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    zillion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
    • When I want to switch Groupwise domains I am forced to click the cancel button on a login dialog box a zillion times (I’m not exaggerating... much)
  • * 2008 , " Brain tests show child wealth gap", BBC News , 6 December 2008:
    • "We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."

    Synonyms

    * (unspecified large number) See also .

    Derived terms

    * zillionaire * zillionth